I like it because it was very fanciful and it dealt with a lot of themes I like to deal with, loneliness and mortality, about time itself. A number of very good writers had taken their hand at it. So it had been kicking around Hollywood for quite a while. And I’m not sure it was his best story, but it was certainly smart and an interesting idea. I’m not sure how seriously, from what I’ve read, he took it. Scott Fitzgerald’s vision of somebody growing old backwards. There is no Curious Case of Benjamin Button without F. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)īefore that you were nominated for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, which is quite an expansion off of the F. I think it gives great results, but it makes it hard. You’re locked in this kind of creative combat. You each want to have what you think is the best vision of the thing. You’re stuck together for a while in a closed room, and you struggle your way through it. And we both might get petulant like a kindergartner and say, “Well, I know I’m right!” You’re fighting over: Is this the right description? Is it the right place? Is it the right time, the way this character should act? Is this something that’s going to embarrass us? Is this something that’s going to instill anything in anybody? You fight creatively because you’re partners. What do we fight about…? We fight about the way the scene might be. What do you fight about? What’s a good fight? Everybody does their best and lays their body down. I’ve worked with probably 20 different directors and some of the most famous who ever lived, like Kurosawa and Spielberg and Marty Scorsese, and everybody works hard. It made me feel like I could still speak to a younger audience, and it was such a joy to see it so successful.Įverybody killed themselves to do really good work. It was important to me to do some really good writing, some good romantic writing, and it also made me feel very vital. And once I got this version to him, we really worked every day together and worked with Stefani-uh, Lady Gaga-together. I said to Bradley, “If you give me six to eight weeks, I’ll have something for you that looks different.” So I did. How can I do something new and also maintain the storytelling that was faithful to what had attracted people for so many years? And I said I was a little cautious because I felt like this story had been done so many times. I’d come on after they had had a screenplay that they were unsure about. One that always comes to mind is Bradley Cooper and I sort of writing scenes together through the morning via text. What stories come to mind from your experience working on that? A Star Is Born (2018)īefore that, you had the adapted-screenplay nomination for A Star Is Born, which you shared with Bradley Cooper and Will Fetters. It’s a unique and very special movie that I’ll always cherish. I was very familiar with credit disputes and whose work is whose, so that it was in keeping with the theme of the movie, which is where a man tries to do his ultimate work. I’ve been at it this almost for 60 years. We just wanted to make sure that structure was sound. In other words, to make sure that it was still contextually interesting, because it was written many years ago, and make sure that research was all solid and that everything…We didn’t do any giant rewriting. What does that mean, to guard the script?
So David asked me if I would join him in doing this and sort of guard the script in a way. But we have nothing but respect for each other.
David Fincher’s one of my closest friends. David Fincher’s late father was credited with the screenplay, and that’s your first best-picture nomination.Īs a producer, 100%. Your most recent Oscar nomination was last year for Mank. And that doesn’t mean that Dune wouldn’t be important to me, but there are other things that are equally important. So I have lots of other work I want to do. Honestly, at the age of 76, there are other worlds to conquer. If they didn’t like it, and you shot movie two, you could be in some deep trouble. And what they didn’t know was how the audience was going to react to movie one. The question was whether they were going to shoot them simultaneously or not. They had always intended to do two Dune movies.
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